My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Not Being Translated Anymore?
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Sorry if this isn't the best place for this but I was wondering if JNC had dropped this series since I hadn't seen it on the schedule anymore since Volume 4 came out.
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@furluge The series has not been dropped, V5 has some special circumstances where part of the volume is in Manga form (a rather large part it was estimated that around 35% of it is manga), and they decided to front load the manga part of the volume’s translation before starting the LN part of the volume.
All of that has lead to this extended absence
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Volume 4 has already been released. Do you mean volume 5?
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I remember asking sometime ago if there were titles that were 'massively illustrated" or part manga/ part LN ...and at the time no one knew of any...and that JNC editing a work to make it w/ more illustrations (from the manga) than was in the initial LN would be problematic (licensing and cost) and more hassle than it's worth
looks like I'm getting my wish w/ Vol. 5 of Bakarina, hooray! Although I'm surprised that this series is getting this treatment (I thought something that was self referential to the manga industry, like Outbreak Company, would)
in any case, I'm looking forward to this
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@jon-mitchell Konosuba has some manga pages in a few of the volumes.
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Impatiently waiting for this and Potion Loli volume 4 :(
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@sniper_samurai One of the Pandora Hearts novels had some manga pages too. Had a note before they began to turn to a specific page and read backwards.
Wonder if Bakarina's published ebook will have a link to where the manga starts to make things easier for readers.
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@tremorc said in My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Not Being Translated Anymore?:
Wonder if Bakarina's published ebook will have a link to where the manga starts to make things easier for readers.
In the ebook, as long as there's no two-pages spreads they could just put the pages in L-R order. (Don't flip the art; each page would still be read R->L. But since an ereader's screen is only big enough to show one page at a time, they can just be rendered in normal page order.)
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Looking forward for this, I remember even Ao Oni also had a few manga pages at the start but they where skipped in the prepub. My hope is that we get to read the manga in the prepub too since it could be parts important for the story
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@tremorc said in My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Not Being Translated Anymore?:
Wonder if Bakarina's published ebook will have a link to where the manga starts to make things easier for readers.
I thought that the LN/manga parts are blended? not merely manga like illustrations of some parts
I imagine the easiest way to do this (chapter breaks in epub script) leads to some clunky page breaks- but would be unambiguous as to where LN text left off and illustrated comic/manga narrative took over
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@rahul-balaggan Did Vol. 5 affect the manga version (now beginning to hit the shelves, currently telling the story of Bakarina preparing for school and then after her enrollment) in any way? Do they reprint the LN's manga pages, or does the manga continue to follow its own distinct storyline? Will the manga's progress in coming out in America be taken into account when the publication date is set for the translated LN Vol. 5?
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@jon-mitchell Well, actually the first volume of "My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom" manga is a part manga/part LN, as it concludes with a prose side story. (Bakarina is not alone in this, I found similar chapters in other manga like "For My Daughter, I'd Even Defeat a Demon Lord" and "I Said to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life!").
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@gary-l-thompson The manga is not handled by J-Novel Club, that was licensed by Seven Seas Entertainment, so there should be no connection with any back end stuff.
